The day, hour by hour
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Morning
Chapman’s Peak Drive
Nine kilometres and a hundred and fourteen curves, cut into the cliff face between Hout Bay and Noordhoek, with a six-hundred-metre drop to the Atlantic on the right the whole way. It took seven years to build and cost more lives than anybody recorded.
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Late morning
Cape Point
Up to the old lighthouse, on foot or by funicular, with False Bay on one side and the Atlantic on the other. Baboons, which children find far more interesting than the view.
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Lunch
On the water at Simon’s Town
With the sea below the table and nothing to rush for.
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Afternoon
Boulders, and then the quiet beach
About three thousand African penguins live at Boulders, in the gardens and under the bushes of a Simon’s Town suburb, and they arrived on their own in 1982 with two breeding pairs. The boardwalk first, where they nest either side of it and walk past your feet. Then a few minutes further along to a beach the coaches do not visit, where the children get into the water and the birds come and go around them.
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Evening
Home the slow way
Back up the False Bay side through the oaks of Constantia. Dinner wherever the family chooses; the Waterfront is on the doorstep.
